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19th Mar 2024

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Slovak deputy PM asked to form new government

Slovakia's deputy prime minister, Peter Pellegrini from the Socialist Party, was tasked on Thursday by president Andrej Kiska to try to form a new government after the resignation of Robert Fico. Fico quit on Wednesday evening, after one of his coalition partner, the Hid-Most party, called for new elections. The government crisis follows the murder of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his partner, amid mass public demonstrations against corruption.

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Borrell: 'Israel provoking famine', urges more aid access

70 percent of northern Gaza is facing famine, new data shows. There is one shower per 5,500 people, and 888 people per toilet. 'How can you live in these conditions?" asked Natalie Boucly of UNRWA at the European Humanitarian Forum.

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Potential legal avenues to prosecute Navalny's killers

The UN could launch an independent international investigation into Navalny's killing, akin to investigation I conducted on Jamal Khashoggi's assassination, or on Navalny's Novichok poisoning, in my role as special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, writes the secretary-general of Amnesty International.

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